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To: keithtoo
The most obvious issue that is consistently avoided by Evol-Doers is precisely whom is the most advanced group of Humans from an Evolutionary perspective.

Invalid question, since "most advanced" is a meaningless term in evolutionary science. For example, if the different races of mankind split off from each other, say, 100,000 years ago, then we've all got 100,000 years of "evolutionary advancement" (more accurately, evolutionary change) beyond our common ancestor. We're all equally "evolved".

Laymen often think that evolution implies "advancement" or "added complexity". It doesn't. It's just change and adaptation and increasing fitness to the environment (if the species isn't already at a local maximum of fitness). "More advanced" is a meaningless term, evolutionarily speaking.

Read this for some insights.

One thing is for certain, if Evolution is true, then we are not all equal!.

True, since changes diverge, but that doesn't mean that some of us are "more advanced" -- we just become more different.

And I demand to see a chart of who goes where on the ladder. I'll never see that chart though.

Because it's based on faulty assumptions.

15 posted on 01/28/2003 3:44:32 PM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Ichneumon
According to Wells, all of the races are descended from these folks in Africa, who were already advanced humans 50,000 years ago when the trek started (they apparently had a kind of speech with clicks included). The folks still there in Africa don't look negroid but like a mix of orientals, Amerinds, and central Asians.
17 posted on 01/28/2003 4:53:47 PM PST by expatpat
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